The Big Switch: It's never too late

by John Thomas

Your fears, they have a strange knack of finding you. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, they will get you. And when they do, they will trouble you just as you always feared.

This is a negative question. You ask yourself a negative question and your brain will respond with a negative answer. If you don’t believe me, look at your answer. You said that you deserved it. You see, how it works? I asked you a negative question and you gave me a negative answer. The problem is that we — on a daily basis — bombard ourselves with a number of such negative questions. I think your mind is loaded with such negative questions at the moment. And you need to get rid of them. Always remember this — negative questions result in negative answers and negative answers take us into a negative state of mind.” “Whoa! I had no idea about this,” Keith said. “And what about the second question? How was it different?” “The second question — as you might already have guessed — was a positive question. I asked you what can be done to save the situation. Instead of asking you why it happened, I was interested in knowing what you can do to get over it. The question calls for some positive action. Hence, it is a positive question. And see, you gave me a positive answer. I am not saying it was the best answer. But it was a positive one for sure. You said that forgetting about the problem might solve it. Whenever you ask yourself a positive question, the problem-solving thought process begins in your mind. And if you keep at it for long enough, you will definitely have